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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Care. 2024 Jan 4;36(5):672–681. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2023.2299338

Table 1.

Characteristics of respondents. (N=315)

Age, M (SD) 29.1 (7.46)
Age groups, n (%)
Younger than 30 years 174 (55.2)
Relationship status, n (%)
Single 149 (47.3)
Education, n (%)
Less than high school degree 6 (1.9)
High school/GED 150 (47.6)
Technical/associate degree 70 (22.2)
Bachelor’s degree or higher 89 (28.3)
Employment, n (%)
Unemployed 69 (21.9)
Student 31 (9.8)
Part-time employment 68 (21.6)
Full-time employment 147 (46.7)
Household income, USD, n (%)
Less than 20,000 104 (33.0)
20,000–40,000 102 (32.4)
40,001–60,000 74 (23.5)
60,001–80,000 35 (11.1)
Geographic region, n (%)
Midwest 72 (22.8)
Northeast 42 (13.3)
South 174 (55.2)
West 27 (8.7)
Health insurance status, n (%)
Uninsured 36 (11.4)
Private health plan 112 (35.6)
Medicaid 122 (38.7)
Other government plan 35 (11.1)
Other 10 (3.2)
Visited a health care provider, past 12 months, n (%) 278 (88.3)
Did not receive healthcare due to cost, past 12 months, n (%) 83 (26.3)
Inconsistent or no condom use and multiple partners, past 6 months, n (%) 39 (12.4)
Worry about HIV infection, n (%) 182 (57.8)
Would use PrEP if provided for free, n (%) 196 (62.2)
Comfortable speaking to healthcare provider about PrEP, n (%) 249 (79.0)
Medical mistrust scale score, M (SD) 37.30 (9.70)
PrEP subjective norms score, M (SD) 11.42 (3.00)
PrEP injunctive norms score, M (SD) 5.98 (1.60)
PrEP descriptive norms score, M (SD) 5.53 (1.66)
PrEP disapproval by others subscale score, M (SD) 6.40 (2.33)
PrEP-user stereotypes subscale score, M (SD) 10.9 (3.66)

PrEP, preexposure prophylaxis; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; STI, sexually transmitted infection. Group medical mistrust scale scores range from 12 to 60, with higher scores indicating greater medical mistrust. PrEP subjective norms scale scores range from 4 to 16, with higher scores indicating more favorable norms. PrEP injunctive and descriptive norms subscale scores range from 2–8, with higher scores indicating more favorable norms. PrEP disapproval by others subscale scores range from 3 to 12, with higher scores indicating greater anticipated disapproval. PrEP-user stereotypes subscale scores range from 5 to 20, with higher scores indicating greater anticipated stereotyping.